Thaumarchaeal ammonia oxidation in an acidic forest peat soil is not influenced by ammonium amendment

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 7626-7634

  Stopnišek, Nejc ^a,b   Gubry Rangin, Cécile ^b   Höfferle, Špela ^a   Nicol, Graeme W ^b   Mandič Mulec, Ines ^a   Prosser, James I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE SEQUENCE; AMMONIA CONCENTRATIONS; AMMONIA OXIDATION; AMMONIA OXIDIZERS; AMMONIA RELEASE; AMMONIUM CONCENTRATIONS; BACTERIAL GENES; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; FUNCTIONAL GENES; GENE TRANSCRIPTS; HIGH POTENTIAL; INORGANIC NITROGEN; MONOOXYGENASES; NITRIFICATION RATES; ORGANIC MATTER; PEAT SOILS; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BACTERIOLOGY; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; MINERALOGY; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; PEAT; RNA; SOILS;

GENES;

AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; OXIDOREDUCTASE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ADAPTATION; AMMONIA; BIOMINERALIZATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROKINESIS; FOREST SOIL; GROWTH RATE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NITRIFICATION; PEAT SOIL; PHYLOGENETICS; PROKARYOTE; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NITRIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; SOIL; TREE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TREES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78649713696     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00595-10     Document Type: Article

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